"announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was established in 2000. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie. He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser to support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive. This opinion has been upheld by numerous court rulings."
"Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), previously branded as the 'William H. Gates Foundation', is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It was launched in 2000, and is said to be the largest private foundation in the United States, holding $50.7 billion in assets. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the US, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, is controlled by its three trustees: Bill and Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett. Other"
"Bill Gates and venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz. Apeel has raised $110 million dollars in financing to date. Apeel Sciences Apeel Sciences is a company based in Goleta, California whose edible coating product Edipeel can reportedly make avocados, citrus and other types of fruit last twice as long as usual by using a tasteless edible coating made from plant materials. The coating's formulation can be modified for strawberries, mangoes, apples, bananas, kumquats and asparagus. Apeel was founded in 2012 by James Rogers, after receiving a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help reduce post-harvest food waste"
"One of TerraPower's primary investors is Bill Gates (via Cascade Investment). Others include Charles River Ventures and Khosla Ventures, who reportedly invested $35 million in 2010. TerraPower is led by chief executive officer Lee McIntire. In December 2011 India's Reliance Industries bought a minority stake through one of its subsidiaries. Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani will join the company's board. Other TerraPower participants include scientists and engineers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Fast Flux Test Facility, Microsoft, and various universities, as well as managers from Siemens A.G., Areva NP, the ITER project, Ango Systems Corporation, and the U.S. Department"
"In 2008, Henkel sold all of the 73 million shares, i.e., nearly a 29.5% stake it held in Ecolab, ending the two-decade-long partnership. The same year, Ecolab established Zurich as its Europe, the Middle East and Africa headquarters. In July 2011, Ecolab announced a merger with Nalco Holding Company, Inc., and in December 2011 Nalco became a wholly owned subsidiary of Ecolab Inc. after it completed its US$5.4 billion acquisition. In May 2012, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, through his investment vehicles — Cascade Investment and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — increased his stake of 10.8% in Ecolab to"
"Steve Ballmer Steven Anthony Ballmer (; born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from January 2000 to February 4, 2014, and is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). , his personal wealth is estimated at US$42.4 billion, ranking him the 18th richest person in the world. Ballmer was hired by Bill Gates at Microsoft in 1980 after dropping out of Stanford University. He eventually became President in 1998, and replaced Gates as CEO in 2000. On February 4, 2014, Ballmer retired"
"company's shares reach its highest value since December 1999. In 2018, Microsoft surpassed Apple as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world after being dethroned by the tech giant in 2010. Childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen sought to make a business utilizing their shared skills in computer programming. In 1972 they founded their first company, named Traf-O-Data, which sold a rudimentary computer to track and analyze automobile traffic data. While Gates enrolled at Harvard, Allen pursued a degree in computer science at Washington State University, though he later dropped out of school to work at Honeywell."
"shares. Gates is the sole owner of the investment firm. In March 2016, only 3 months after the Blackstone transaction closed, Anbang Insurance Group purchased Strategic for $6.5 billion. Strategic Hotels & Resorts Strategic Hotels & Resorts is an American REIT in the hospitality industry. It was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as BEE. The company owns 18 luxury hotels, 17 of which are located in the United States and one of which is in Germany. In September 2015, Strategic Hotels & Resorts sold itself to The Blackstone Group for $6 billion. Through his investment firm, Cascade"
"the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board. Gates has been a member of the board of trustees of Fidelity Investments, and on the board of directors of NACCO Industries, Inc., Brinker International, Inc., Parker Drilling Company, Science Applications International Corporation, and VoteHere, a technology company which sought to provide cryptography and computer software security for the electronic election industry. Following his nomination, a White House spokeswoman said that Gates planned to sell all the stock he owns in individual companies and sever all ties with them if confirmed by the Senate. Gates is a former president of the National Eagle"
"(Westinghouse Electric Corporation), Levi Strauss (Levi Strauss & Co.), Charles Guth (PepsiCo Inc.), Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation), Jawed Karim (YouTube), Elon Musk (SolarCity), (SpaceX) and (Tesla Motors), James L. Kraft (Kraft Foods Inc.), Henry E. Steinway (Steinway & Sons), Charles Pfizer (Pfizer, Inc.), John Jacob Astor (Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts), Conrad Hilton (Hilton Hotels & Resorts), Guggenheim family (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation), (Guggenheim Partners), Marcus Goldman and Samuel Sachs (The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.), Lehman Brothers (Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.), Carl Laemmle (Universal Studios), Marcus Loew (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.), Harry Cohn (Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.), Herman Hollerith (International Business"
"aimed at regulating tax avoidance schemes and tax probes into several EU companies. PwC initiated charges against the two whistleblowers that revealed the LuxLeaks tax controversy. In March 2017 a Luxembourg appeals court upheld their convictions, but with reduced sentences. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation by Microsoft founder Bill Gates has sued Petrobras and accounting firm PwC Brazil arm over investment losses due to corruption at the Brazilian oil company. The filings have also alleged that PwC's Brazil affiliate, PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores Independentes, played a significant role by attesting to Petrobras financial statements and ignoring warnings. CEO, Luke Sayers, is"
"Sara and Moshe Zisapel Nanoelectronics Center at their alma mater, the Technion, named in memory of their parents. Zohar Zisapel Zohar Zisapel (born February 15, 1949; ), is a successful Israeli entrepreneur in Israel’s advanced high-tech industry, sometimes referred to as ""the Bill Gates of Israel."" The RAD Group of companies he co-founded with his brother, Yehuda, has been called ""the world's most successful incubator"" of telecom-related start-ups by Business 2.0 magazine. The RAD Group employs 4,500 people and closed 2015 with a total of $1.234 billion in global sales. Four RAD Group companies are currently traded on the NASDAQ"
"Melinda Gates Melinda Ann Gates DBE (née French; born August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist. She is a former Microsoft employee and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She worked at Microsoft, where she was project manager for Microsoft Bob, ""Encarta"" and Expedia. Melinda Ann French was born on August 15, 1964 in Dallas, Texas. She is the second of four children to Raymond Joseph French Jr., an aerospace engineer, and Elaine Agnes Amerland, a homemaker. Melinda has an older sister and two younger brothers. Melinda, a Roman Catholic, attended St. Monica Catholic School, where she was"
"acquired the Uniroyal Power Transmission Company and became the world's largest synchronous/timing belt manufacturer, firmly establishing its growth path in the Asia-Pacific region. In 1996, the company was acquired by the British-based engineering firm Tomkins plc, ending 85 years of family ownership. In 2003, Gates changed its name to The Gates Corporation, a move reflecting the company's expanding range of industrial brands, product lines, and customers. The Denver factory closed, and by 2001, some buildings hadn't been used in nearly a decade. Asbestos contaminated the buildings and trichloroethylene in the groundwater was still under remediation in late 2014. While parts"
"and Bill Gates. It was reported that Brown had turned down an offer of $300 million to buy out Impossible Foods in 2015. In August 2017, $75 million in additional financing was raised after reaching key objectives, with Bill Gates investing additional money. In April 2018, an additional $114 million was raised, led by Singapore’s Temasek Holdings and Hong Kong-based Sailing Capital, bringing the total to $372 million, nearly $400 million. Impossible Foods Impossible Foods Inc. is a company that develops plant-based substitutes for meat and dairy products. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company aims to give people the"
"and 2015. The table again only includes grants recorded in the Gates Foundation's IATI publications. The foundation explains on its website that its trustees divided the organization into two entities: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. The foundation section, based in Seattle, US, ""focuses on improving health and alleviating extreme poverty"", and its trustees are Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. The trust section manages ""the investment assets and transfer proceeds to the foundation as necessary to achieve the foundation's charitable goals""—it holds the assets of Bill and Melinda Gates, who"
"the construction of the Gates Computer Science Building, completed in January 1996, on the campus of Stanford University. The building contains the Computer Science Department (CSD) and the Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) of Stanford's Engineering department. On August 15, 2014, Bill Gates posted a video of himself on Facebook in which he is seen dumping a bucket of ice water on his head. Gates posted the video after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg challenged him to do so in order to raise awareness for the disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Since about 2005, Bill Gates and his foundation have taken an"
"Strategic Hotels & Resorts Strategic Hotels & Resorts is an American REIT in the hospitality industry. It was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as BEE. The company owns 18 luxury hotels, 17 of which are located in the United States and one of which is in Germany. In September 2015, Strategic Hotels & Resorts sold itself to The Blackstone Group for $6 billion. Through his investment firm, Cascade Investments, Bill Gates has purchased 1.74 million shares of Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc.’s common stock at a total price of $21.45 million – totaling 9.8% of the REIT’s"
"philanthropy and international development. Gates has also donated over $10 million to her high school, Ursuline Academy of Dallas. She is one of the major donors of their Facing the Future Campaign and was honored in their dedication ceremony on May 7, 2010. In recognition of the foundation's philanthropic activities in India, Bill and Melinda Gates jointly received India's third-highest civilian honor, Padma Bhushan, in 2015. In 2016, President Barack Obama honored Gates and her husband with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their philanthropic efforts. In 2017, Gates was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 12 in the"
"Since 1987, Gates has been included in the ""Forbes"" list of the world's wealthiest people, an index of the wealthiest documented individuals, excluding and ranking against those with wealth that is not able to be completely ascertained. From 1995 to 2017, he held the ""Forbes"" title of the richest person in the world all but four of those years, and held it consistently from March 2014 to July 2017, with an estimated net worth of US$89.9 billion . However, on July 27, 2017, and since October 27, 2017, he has been surpassed by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who"
"2010 the company announced acquisition of Denver-based data center company ViaWest Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter. In 2017 the company sold Wave Broadband for more than $2.3 billion. Robert Bass, who was an early investor in leveraged buyouts in the 1980s and employed David Bonderman and Jim Coulter the founders of Texas Pacific Group, is the lead investor in Oak Hill Capital Partners. The company has garnered widespread media attention due to its addition of investors Bill Gates and Nike founder Phil Knight. Other investors include the Country of Singapore"
"process fall under the Azure Machine Learning and the Azure IoT Hub platforms. On 10 October, 2018, Microsoft joined the Open Invention Network community despite holding more than 60,000 patents. On 16 October, 2018, Paul Allen the co-founder of Microsoft passed away after complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In November 2018, Microsoft agreed to supply 100,000 HoloLens headsets to the United States military in order to ""increase lethality by enhancing the ability to detect, decide and engage before the enemy."" History of Microsoft Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and"
"as CEO and was succeeded by Satya Nadella; Ballmer resigned from the Board of Directors on August 19, 2014 to prepare for teaching a new class. On May 29, 2014, Ballmer placed a bid of $2 billion to purchase the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers after NBA commissioner Adam Silver forced Donald Sterling to sell the team. He officially became the Clippers owner on August 12, 2014; Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was a fellow owner in the NBA, having owned the Portland Trail Blazers since 1988. His time as Microsoft CEO has been seen as mixed, with critics noting the company's"
"Vulcan Inc. Vulcan Inc. is a privately held company controlled by the estate of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Established in 1986, Vulcan oversees Allen's business activities and philanthropic efforts including —the Seattle Seahawks, the Portland Trail Blazers, the Great Elephant Census, the Seattle Cinerama, and Stratolaunch Systems. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Vulcan's Real Estate division offers development and portfolio management services from site selection and urban planning to build-to-suit construction. Vulcan has developed 6.6 million square feet of new residential, office, retail and biotechnology research space and has a total development capacity of 10,000,000 square feet"
"2017, media outlets reported that a company associated with billionaire Bill Gates purchased between Buckeye and Tonopah for $80 million. Gates's company plans to create a ""smart city"" called Belmont on the site. The chorus of the song ""Willin'"" by Lowell George of Little Feat on the albums ""Little Feat"", ""Sailin' Shoes"" and ""Waiting for Columbus"" refers to either Tonopah, Arizona or Tonopah, Nevada: Tonopah, Arizona Tonopah is a census-designated place in western Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, approximately west of downtown Phoenix off Interstate 10. The community is near the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, the largest power producer"
"and cosmetics company that was ultimately acquired by Johnson & Johnson for a “significant premium.” Johnson & Johnson’s acquisition of Neutrogena – which was largely for the brand’s strength – caught the attention of Microsoft founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, who convinced Hanson to join them to take over branding efforts of what eventually became Windows. Since his work with Microsoft, Hanson has served as a consultant, CEO, president and board member at a number of start up and emerging companies, though the bulk of his work has been in and notoriety derived from consulting. Hanson served as"
"by investing in clean energy innovation."" The fund is named Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund. The group is spearheaded by Bill Gates, who previously announced a personal $2 billion investment, and includes: There has been criticism that the coalition was announced too early, before crucial details has been confirmed. At launch, a Gates Foundation spokesman confirmed that investment professionals had yet to be appointed, named investors - other than Gates - hadn't publicly stated their level of investment and a financial structure hadn't been confirmed. The scale, at US$20bn of public cash over five years and the initial US$2bn of private"
"with official data. In 1990, he married Connie Snyder; they have three sons. The Ballmers live in Hunts Point, Washington. Steve Ballmer Steven Anthony Ballmer (; born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from January 2000 to February 4, 2014, and is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). , his personal wealth is estimated at US$42.4 billion, ranking him the 18th richest person in the world. Ballmer was hired by Bill Gates at Microsoft in 1980 after dropping out of Stanford"
"Zohar Zisapel Zohar Zisapel (born February 15, 1949; ), is a successful Israeli entrepreneur in Israel’s advanced high-tech industry, sometimes referred to as ""the Bill Gates of Israel."" The RAD Group of companies he co-founded with his brother, Yehuda, has been called ""the world's most successful incubator"" of telecom-related start-ups by Business 2.0 magazine. The RAD Group employs 4,500 people and closed 2015 with a total of $1.234 billion in global sales. Four RAD Group companies are currently traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange: ""Ceragon Networks"", ""Radware "", ""RADCOM"", and ""Silicom"". Zisapel was born in Tel Aviv, one of three"
"applications to replace halon, a greenhouse gas (GHG). It was developed by Eclipse Aviation for use aboard their Eclipse 500 jets, and is now being marketed to other aviation manufacturers. Eclipse Aviation Eclipse Aviation Corporation was the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based manufacturer of the Eclipse 500 very light jet (VLJ) and also at one time proposed developing the Eclipse 400 single-engined jet. The company was founded in 1998 by early Microsoft employee and former Symantec CEO, Vern Raburn. Due to Raburn's relationship with Microsoft, Bill Gates was a major stake-holder in the Eclipse project. Production of the Eclipse 500 was halted"
"portmanteau of ""microcomputer"" and ""software"". Microsoft is ranked No. 30 in the 2018 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from"
"$5.4 billion. In December 2017, Gates Corporation filed an initial public offering and became a public corporation. The company's headquarters are located at 1144 15th Street in Denver, Colorado. Gates designs and manufactures industrial belt, hose, and hydraulic products for a wide range of industries in several global markets. Having realized influence of globalization and important of usage innovative approach, Gates started working on the digital tools that will help people obtain the information they need for the vehicle repairs and part information through the internet. Apart of the information on part numbers and installation instructions, Gates started working on"
"Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Microsoft Corp. founder and his wife, the Gates Award ($1 million) is administered by the Council. In 2004 the award went to Fazle Hasan Abed and his organization, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), one of the ""world's most successful development organizations, credited with improving the health and welfare of tens of millions of destitute people in Bangladesh"". Past winners include the Rotary Foundation, which has raised millions for an ongoing global campaign to stamp out polio. The winner of the 2009 Gates Award was awarded to The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine."